ἐνδύω

לָבַשׁ lâbash · H3847 · dressed, arrayed, to put on (oneself)

Greek ἐνδύω and Hebrew לָבַשׁ both denote the act of putting on or clothing oneself (literally or figuratively), with the Greek term commonly rendering the Hebrew verb in LXX translations of dressing/investiture contexts.

To clothe, to dress, to put on49.1

This verb means to put on or dress oneself in clothing, used of Jesus' teaching against anxiety over what one will wear — "nor for your body, as to what you will put on" (Matthew 6:25), of the man improperly dressed at the wedding feast, "he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes" (Matthew 22:11), of the soldiers putting Jesus' own garments back on Him after mocking Him, "they took the cloak off Him and put His own garments back on Him" (Matthew 27:31), and of John the Baptist's distinctive clothing of camel's hair, "John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist" (Mark 1:6).

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.